soulsync 2.8.0 — dev → main

mostly a quality + reliability release. the headline is a big cleanup of the Unverified review queue (it stops inflating and self-heals), a new Preview Clip Cleanup tool, smarter Album Completeness for split/fragmented albums, and a real pass on dashboard performance (especially Firefox/Zen). plus a pile of reported fixes.

what's new

Preview Clip Cleanup (new Tools job)

the HiFi source sometimes hands back a ~30-second preview clip instead of the full song, and it lands looking like a normal track. the new job scans your short tracks, checks how long each one should be from its metadata source, and flags the previews. approve a finding and it deletes the clip, drops it from the library, and re-wishlists the full version. each finding has a ▶ Play button + a file-length-vs-real-length readout so you can confirm it's busted before approving. conservative by design — genuine short tracks and anything it can't verify are left alone.

the Unverified queue stops inflating + self-heals (#934)

big one for anyone who saw thousands of "unverified" rows. the AcoustID scan was creating a fresh history row every run and leaving already-verified files stuck as "unverified" (a frozen import-time path that stopped matching once the file moved). now:

• scans no longer duplicate rows and heal on the spot, and
• a one-time reconcile on startup clears the existing backlog from your library's truth — no re-scan needed, including human-verified files a scan skips, and
• a 🧹 Clean orphaned button removes dead rows whose file is genuinely gone (with a safety gate that refuses to run if your library looks offline).
  the Unverified review rows also got the nicer Quarantine-style cards (artwork, inline details). (thanks @nick2000713 for #938.)

Album Completeness handles split albums (#936, #929, #931)

a physical album split across multiple library rows used to show every fragment as falsely "incomplete." it now groups the validated fragments into one logical album and emits a single correct finding — grouping by a shared id and validating at the track level, so unrelated rows never get fused. also recognizes MusicBrainz as a readable album source. (thanks @ragnarlotus.)

Clear Completed is back on the Downloads page

since completed downloads now persist across restart, the Clear Completed button had gone missing for them. it's back — it clears the live list and the persisted history so the page actually empties and stays empty (your files are untouched).

fixes

• pasted YouTube cookies threw unsupported browser: "custom" (Docker) — the client passed the "Paste cookies.txt" mode through as a browser name instead of using the cookies file. now it loads the pasted cookies.txt correctly — the only auth path that works on a headless/Docker box. (thanks HellRa1SeR.)
• longer remasters quarantined as "truncated" (#937) — the duration check was symmetric, so a remaster running a few seconds longer than the metadata got rejected like a truncated download. it's asymmetric now: short files stay strict, longer versions get room. (thanks @diegocade1.)
• "Add to Wishlist" from an artist discography was painfully slow — ~15–30s per track on a large library, because the per-track library-ownership check fell through to a full-table fuzzy scan. it now matches in-memory against the artist's tracks once — effectively instant.
• wishlist art was blank for re-downloads / preview re-fetches — library-sourced items stored a relative media-server path that doesn't render in a browser. they're normalized on read now, so album + artist art show up (fixes already-saved items too).
• watchlist didn't record automatic scans (#933) + watchlist fused different editions of an album as one.
• manual search: a pasted Qobuz/Tidal track now floats to the top of results (#932).
• Popular Picks came up empty on Deezer — a popularity-threshold scale mismatch.

performance + UI

• dashboard GPU usage, especially on Firefox/Zen (#935) — frosted-glass blur, cursor-glow blobs, and the worker-orb animation were repainting every frame. trimmed the worst offenders, made the orb loop hold a steady framerate on Firefox instead of dropping to ~1fps, and set Background Particles OFF by default. the dashboard system-memory tile now also shows SoulSync's own RAM.
• bounded memory growth (#802) — browsing every page used to climb RSS into the GBs (plexapi's XML trees deferring GC) and could lock the app up. a lightweight sweeper now collects + hands memory back to the OS as it grows, so it sawtooths and settles instead of climbing.